When I first signed up for diigo, I was intending to use it only for my own research. I therefore used a pseudonym for my name. Let's suppose my real name is Barak, but I used GeorgeW as my name. I also use the GeorgeW pseudonym on other web sites. As time went on and I became more enamored of diigo, I eventually decided to use it for teaching. My students do web pages as part of my course, and I used diigo highlights and sticky notes to comment on their web pages. Since this is a form of grading, I wanted to keep things private. So I set up separate private groups for each team that created a web page. Once I had graded all the pages, I invited the members of each team to join the corresponding group. Only after the fact did I realize that they will now know I am GeorgeW. I don't so much mind this here, but there are other web sites (not pornography -- get you mind out of the gutter!) where GeorgeW expresses political opinions and other things that I would rather my students not associate with me. Even more importantly, I use the pseudonym on sites where I want to preserve my privacy. Now any student can blow my cover simply by publishing the pseudonym on their blog.
What can I do, and how can I prevent this in the future?
But sorry to disappoint, username cannot be changed easily at the moment. We did put up a warning for users to choose their username very carefully as it cannot be changed easily (very tricky backend operation - will impact many databases and can easily messed things up.)
While we might consider adding such a feature eventually (not for a while given our long to-do list), not sure how extensively you have already worked with your students at this point. You might consider checking out the new educator account - www.diigo.com/education which allows you to create student accounts easily. You may wish to start off with a new account and start over again?
By the way, is this k12 or higher ed course that you're teaching?
Joel just mentioned that we may be able to release a feature to allow users to change username soon (probably one or two weeks.) Stay tuned for further update.
(AFAIR fuzzy was my previous pseudoynm for which I foolishly forgot the password. That's OT; now in reality I'm happy with the one name.)
Put another way: I might
1. choose a persona at time of bookmarking/highlighting/annotation (select one of two personas from a pull-down menu, or click one of two radio buttons alongside personas)
2. occasionally seek an overview/sense of what has been bookmarked by both personas
Personally, I might choose to offer a public overview of both personas.
Marsh Feldman might have personas 'Teacher Feldman' and 'GeorgeW Feldman' and Marsh Felman would probably enjoy an overview of both personas, whilst never allowling a student to become aware of that overview or the association between personas.
The words "relational databases nightmare" come to mind ;)
I do have an approach to personas that need not bring database administrators to their knees. I should aim to share that approach in a separate topic.
Hi, Marsh leading by a few years (^o^), please was the "Allow for User Name Change" somehow droped by since then? I have to transmit my whole collection of Diigo bookmarks with their annotations to someone else. And I can see no other way to achieve this than giving this person my account, then he simply changes the accounts credentials! THanks for any ideas
When I first signed up for diigo, I was intending to use it only for my own research. I therefore used a pseudonym for my name. Let's suppose my real name is Barak, but I used GeorgeW as my name. I also use the GeorgeW pseudonym on other web sites. As time went on and I became more enamored of diigo, I eventually decided to use it for teaching. My students do web pages as part of my course, and I used diigo highlights and sticky notes to comment on their web pages. Since this is a form of grading, I wanted to keep things private. So I set up separate private groups for each team that created a web page. Once I had graded all the pages, I invited the members of each team to join the corresponding group. Only after the fact did I realize that they will now know I am GeorgeW. I don't so much mind this here, but there are other web sites (not pornography -- get you mind out of the gutter!) where GeorgeW expresses political opinions and other things that I would rather my students not associate with me. Even more importantly, I use the pseudonym on sites where I want to preserve my privacy. Now any student can blow my cover simply by publishing the pseudonym on their blog.
What can I do, and how can I prevent this in the future?
Sorry to hear such a "dilemma" - I sympathize!
But sorry to disappoint, username cannot be changed easily at the moment. We did put up a warning for users to choose their username very carefully as it cannot be changed easily (very tricky backend operation - will impact many databases and can easily messed things up.)
While we might consider adding such a feature eventually (not for a while given our long to-do list), not sure how extensively you have already worked with your students at this point. You might consider checking out the new educator account - www.diigo.com/education which allows you to create student accounts easily. You may wish to start off with a new account and start over again?
By the way, is this k12 or higher ed course that you're teaching?
Joel just mentioned that we may be able to release a feature to allow users to change username soon (probably one or two weeks.) Stay tuned for further update.
If I gained multiple personas, then I might have amongst my dashboard items
* few most recent bookmarks by http://www.diigo.com/user/fuzzy
* few most recent bookmarks by http://www.diigo.com/user/grahamperrin
(AFAIR fuzzy was my previous pseudoynm for which I foolishly forgot the password. That's OT; now in reality I'm happy with the one name.)
Put another way: I might
1. choose a persona at time of bookmarking/highlighting/annotation (select one of two personas from a pull-down menu, or click one of two radio buttons alongside personas)
2. occasionally seek an overview/sense of what has been bookmarked by both personas
Personally, I might choose to offer a public overview of both personas.
Marsh Feldman might have personas 'Teacher Feldman' and 'GeorgeW Feldman' and Marsh Felman would probably enjoy an overview of both personas, whilst never allowling a student to become aware of that overview or the association between personas.
The words "relational databases nightmare" come to mind ;)
I do have an approach to personas that need not bring database administrators to their knees. I should aim to share that approach in a separate topic.
> we may be able to release a feature to allow users to change
> username soon
Please, will Diigo 4 allow this?
Marsh leading by a few years (^o^), please was the "Allow for User Name Change" somehow droped by since then?
I have to transmit my whole collection of Diigo bookmarks with their annotations to someone else.
And I can see no other way to achieve this than giving this person my account, then he simply changes the accounts credentials!
THanks for any ideas
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